rity which must be observed in a
large school, but, most of all, the stimulus of systematic brain-work
upon the body, has proved most sanitary.

The mother of one young lady placed her under our care a year and a half
ago, saying, as she did so: "My daughter has always been frail. I
greatly fear she will not be able to endure regular school work. Send
her home at any time, if convinced that her health suffers from school
discipline." While her health has been steadily improving, she has been
able to gain an enviable position in her class. One of her professors
said that he had never heard more finished recitations than hers. This
is only one instance, where we might give many, of the quickening
influence of brain-work upon the body, and we have often heard the same
testimony given by other teachers.

Of course, we do not claim that sick girls ought to study, any more than
sick boys, or that there are, at the present time, as many girls who can
endure hard study, either spasmodic or continuous, as boys. We accept
the fact, that American women are sickly women; we only protest against
the false theory that makes our higher schools responsible for the fact.

In Dr. Clarke's chapter upon co-education, we read that "this
experiment"--meaning co-education--"has been tried in some of our
western Colleges, but has not been tried long enough to show much more
than its first-fruits, viz., its results while the students are in
college; and of these, the only obvious ones are increased emulation,
and intellectual development and attainments."

Wondering how long it must be tried before it ceases to be an
experiment, we read on a few pages, when we are told that "two or three
generations, at least, of the female college graduates of this sort of
co-education, must come and go before any sufficient idea can be formed
of the harvest it will yield." Is it not rather dangerous to wait two or
three generations for the result of an experiment, when it affects so
important a question as our national life? But what if the experiment
has been already tried? What if we can show by actual figures that, in
addition to the increased intellectual development and attainments, time
has proved that there has also been physical strength "to stand the wear
and tear of woman's work in life?" If we can have intellectual
development and physical activity combined, is it not a thing to be
devoutly wished? If there is any other conclusion to be truthful